My business partner had a Toughbook. The hard drive was not so tough - just a standard drive in a cushion. I'd recommend upgrading to an SSD drive for any boat laptop. After all, who backs up their boat laptop?
Joel 35/3 Annapolis On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Bill Bina <billb...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > Many police departments lease the Panasonic toughbook laptops for their > patrol cars. That means that you can usually find deals on Ebay and > elsewhere for 3 year old toughbooks that came off of a lease at very > reasonable prices. They have many advantages over other laptops and > notebooks. They are water resistant/proof so they can be used on deck, even > in the rain, and the displays are truly daylight viewable. These things are > very popular with construction companies and arctic expeditions, too. One > of the specs is that they can be dropped from 6 feet onto concrete WHILE > RUNNING. If you spill coffee on the keyboard, just rinse it off with water! > :-) > > > Bill Bina > > On 5/22/2013 11:19 AM, Della Barba, Joe wrote: > > I have a spare hard drive for that if I can get the drivers to work. > Last time I tried to load Ubuntu on a 600 series it did not work at all. > For anyone wondering about it, OpenCPN is available for Linux and Mac too. > So far the only issue I have really had was a decade of hot/cold/damp/salt > was about as much as the old IBM could stand. **** > > ** ** > > *Joe Della Barba* > > > > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > CnC-List@cnc-list.com > > -- Joel 301 541 8551
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